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  In between biodiversity conservation and Intellectual Property Rights: an analysis of the economic motives of TRIPs and the implementation of sui generis systems

  Genetic Engineering & Intellectual Property Rights Resource Center, 2000

  Paper disputes the assumption that access to genetic resources, foreign investment and technology transfer will in turn benefit developing countries, stimulate their participation in the world market and facilitate their development.Conclusions:implementation costs of TRIPs in developing countries are very high compared to the benefitsTRIPs disregards the moral values in deve
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  How does privatization work?: ownership concentration and enterprise performance in Ukraine

  International Monetary Fund, 2001

  This paper concludes that:the effectiveness of mass privatisation methods that led to a dispersed post-privatisation ownership structure is questionable and suggests that privatization that grants signficant ownership stakes to single parties may have greater efficiency gains than privatization that disperses ownershipseveral years after privatisation ownership structures of individual
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  Currency crises and the real economy: the role of banks

  International Monetary Fund, 2001

  The article indicates that:typically, analysis of currency crisis emphasise the trade-off between high interest rates and the political costs of devaluing. Usually the debate is framed in terms of a devaluation versus a recession. This is not necessarily valid in the presence of weak banking sector.
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  Go with the flows?: capital account liberalisation and poverty

  Bretton Woods Project, 2001

  This site includes a collection of three papers on Capital Account Liberalisation (CAL) and its link with poverty reduction.The first paper Part 1: From capital account liberalisation to the real economy: putting people first concludes that whilst the means of controlling flows needed to be reconsid
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  Measures to limit the offshore use of currencies: pros and cons

  International Monetary Fund, 2001

  This article investigates the benefits of limiting the offshore use of national currencies. Such policies have been favourable to Singapore, who have have been concerned that large offshore markets in their currencies could induce greater volatility in capital flows and exchange rates and make it harder for the government to control the money supply.
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  Structural adjustment and intersectoral shifts in Tanzania: a computable general equilibrium analysis

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2001

  This study analyzes the effect of stabilization and structural adjustment policies on overall economic growth, sectoral performance, welfare,and income distribution in Tanzania. It reviews policy programs implemented and economic performance achieved since the beginning of the reforms, highlighting economic fluctuations under changing political conditions.
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  Foreign and local investment in East Africa, interactions and policy implications: case studies on Mauritius, Uganda and Kenya

  Equity and Growth through Economic Research, 2000

  This study was designed to explore whether foreign direct investment (FDI) squeezes out locals, or conversely opens up opportunities for them. The paper also hypothesises that local investment might sometimes take the lead, that an improvement in the business climate which stimulated local investment might act to attract FDI (foreign direct investment).
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  Sustaining high rates of economic growth in India

  Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2001

  This article looks at means of strengthening India's growth strategy.The article suggests:a strategy focussing on export-led growth, which among other things requires greater emphasis on special economic zones, and openness of the economy, liberalization in India's labor laws, de-reservation of products for the small scale industry and other measures for the deregulation of India's priv
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  New thinking on poverty in the UK: any lessons for the South?

  Overseas Development Institute, 2000

  The briefing assesses the policies and targets to reduce poverty in the UK. The paper discusses the possibility of transferring some of the lessons learned in the North to the SouthConclusions:focusing on the experience of the North does not imply that there is a 'model' on offer that can be transferred to the South.
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  Money, politics, and a future for the international financial system

  World Bank, 2001

  This article discusses the different kinds of regulatory frameworks that exist for financial systems and a scenario for development of the world financial system that assumes a market solution.

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